Digital assets internet timeline aggregation and sharing platform

Abstract

Personal digital assets are collected, managed, shared and archived on a social network using a client interface for registering a user and performing tasks. User sources are defined and assets are collected and organized chronologically as eternal Time-lines. Permission level rules are associated with each asset and Time-line and a plurality of subjective groups distinguished by their relation to the user are defined. Chosen assets of the Time-line are tagged with assigned keywords recognized by the social network service, thus sharing them with the tagged entity according to the permission level rules. Authorized members are invited to contribute and share assets with the founder of an established Time-line, and data storage is optimized in a way that every tag added to an assets appears on every instance it has on other Time-lines sharing that asset, such that shared assets are saved to the data storage only once.

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FIELD OF THE INVENTION[0001]The present invention relates to collecting, managing and secure sharing of personal digital information on a social network, and more particularly to a method and system of archiving assortment of digital media formats and external links, collectively forming personal life-time identity, on a single social network.BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION[0002]Since the third century, when paper became the main substance for writing, and until the end of the 20th century, starting the age of personal computing, the only way to keep personal information such as letters, official documents and sketches or photos was on paper. The amount of personal paper documents was limited and an individual could save his entire lifetime documentation in a moderate storage box. The introduction of digital media and storage devices made it possible to save more frequent and detailed information such as audio and video streams, digital or scanned paper documents, as well as text files ...

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Benefits of technology

[0007]It is thus an object of the present invention to devise a method and provide a system for long-term collecting, managing, secure sharing and archiving of valuable personal digital assets on a social network.

Problems solved by technology

The amount of personal paper documents was limited and an individual could save his entire lifetime documentation in a moderate storage box.

The rapid technology improvement, however, made it difficult to follow-up, as VCR tapes, audio cassettes and floppy disks were replaced with more efficient devices and equipment to read such media is rapidly becoming rare.

As a result public and commercial organizations such as Google, AOL, Yahoo, Hotmail, etc., now provide world wide web storage services with search options and some limited assurance to its future validity (services).

Whether using the local (off-line) storage approach or the services (on-line) storage approach, the huge amount of information and the different categories by which such information is collected, makes it very difficult to locate a specific item.

Such deficient spreading is, however not reversible, and the more channels used to store and share digital media, the more difficult it becomes to trace it back.

For instance, tracing a particular wedding photo, which a friend had sent to an obsolete e-mail address may become a time-consuming task or totally fail.

These valuable assets are just spread all over and may eventually be lost.

In particular, that picture doesn't become a part of his son's private collection, so that when his son grows up, he will have no way of accessing the asset, unless he knows exactly where it is published, and has a granted access to that particular service.

This is partly true, however, the e-mail concept, actually duplicates the file, creating a copy of it.

As of today, there is not one unified system that enables us to manage, maintain, monitor and share all of these assets in an interactive chronological fashion, regardless of their origin, digital file type and format.

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